Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving.... - bell hooks
"Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape."
More quotes by bell hooks
"feminism is for everybody"
"Living simply makes loving simple."
"The message received from the mass media is that knowledge makes love less compelling; that it is ignorance that gives love its erotic and transgressive edge."
"Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope."
"To be changed by ideas was pure pleasure. But to learn ideas that ran counter to values and beliefs learned at home was to place oneself at risk, to enter the danger zone. Home was the place where I was forced to conform to someone else’s image of who and what I should be. School was the place where I could forget that self and, through ideas, reinvent myself."